Children are overbearing, supercilious, passionate, envious, inquisitive, egotistical, idle, fickle, timid, intemperate, liars, and dissemblers; they laugh and weep easily, are excessive… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
At an expense trifling indeed, compared to what she frequently spends upon unprofitable contests, she might place the moral world on a… — John Strachan Copy Share Image
Nothing makes us better understand what trifling things Providence thinks He bestows on men in granting them wealth, money, dignities, and other… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
Alas! the joys that fortune brings Are trifling, and decay, And those who prize the trifling things, More trifling still than they. — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
There is no trifling with nature; it is always true, grave, and severe; it is always in the light, and the faults… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The birds looked upon me as nothing but a man, quite a trifling creature without wings-and they would have nothing to do… — Rabindranath Tagore Copy Share Image
Christian community is like the Christian's sanctification. It is a gift of God which we cannot claim. Only God knows the real… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
Asceticism is the trifling of an enthusiast with his power, a puerile coquetting with his selfishness or his vanity, in the absence… — Florence Nightingale Copy Share Image
[The] liberty of divorce does not contribute to happiness and virtue. The facility of separation would destroy all mutual confidence, and inflame… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
In the space of one hundred and seventy-six years the Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. Therefore, in the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
A warrior should not say something fainthearted, even casually. He should set his mind to this beforehand. Even in trifling matters the… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
A lack of patience in trifling matters might lead to the disruption of great project. — Confucius Copy Share Image
God, newspapers have been making up stories forever. This kind of trifling and fooling around is not a function of the New… — Tom Wolfe Copy Share Image
Women remain children all their lives, for they always see only what is near at hand, cling to the present, take the… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I will not say with Lord Hale, that "The Law will admit of no rival" . . . but I will say… — Joseph Story Copy Share Image
Trifling favors are readily acknowledged, though cheaply esteemed; but important ones are most rarely remembered. — Giovanni Ruffini Copy Share Image
Death is by no means separate from life. . . . We all interact with death every day, tasting it as we… — Eugene Kennedy Copy Share Image
Surely no man can reflect, without wonder upon the vicissitudes of human life arising from causes in the highest degree accidental and… — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
Nor let us part with justice, like a cheap and common thing, for a small and trifling price. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Everyone wants to understand art. Why not try to understand the song of a bird? Why does one love the night, flowers,… — Pablo Picasso Copy Share Image
I look upon prayer-meetings as the most profitable exercises (excepting the public preaching) in which Christians can engage. They have a direct… — John Newton Copy Share Image
Moralities, ethics, laws, customs, beliefs, doctrines - these are of trifling import. All that matters is that the miraculous become the norm. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
Of what use are all the codes in the world, if by means of confidential reports, if for trifling reasons, if through… — Jose Rizal Copy Share Image
The spectator, as he walks the gallery, will stop, or pass along. To give a general air of grandeur at first view,… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
If we use no ceremony towards others, we shall be treated without any. People are soon tired of paying trifling attentions to… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
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